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Cory Garcia

Cory Garcia is a Contributing Editor for the Houston Press. He once won an award for his writing, but he doesn't like to brag about it. If you're reading this sentence, odds are good it's because he wrote a concert review you don't like or he wanted to talk pro wrestling.

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Luke Bryan Closes Out RodeoHouston With the Biggest Show of the Season

By Cory Garcia
Mar 20, 2023

Luke Bryan NRG Stadium March 19, 2K23 There’s something quaint about the fact there are still a handful of country purists out there that think Luke Bryan is the devil. Yeah, we’ve been over this before, about how he has songs with some of the dumbest lyrics around, and how...
RodeoHouston's Current Constant Brad Paisley Mostly Gets the Job Done

By Cory Garcia
Mar 19, 2023

Brad Paisley NRG Stadium March 18, 2K23 It’s a simple question with a complex answer: how does one become a RodeoHouston regular? Getting a shot at the Rodeo isn’t something that seems particularly difficult if you’re a mainstream recording artist; you just need to get one decently popular song and...
Skip Seeing Walker Hayes Live and Just Go to Applebee's

By Cory Garcia
Mar 5, 2023

Walker Hayes NRG Stadium March 4, 2K23 There’s a bit that hack comedians do when they want to make fun of country music. You know the drill; “All country songs are about my wife leaving, my dog dying and my truck breaking.” This sort of bit doesn’t really work anymore...
Talking the Past, the Present, and the Galaxy With Tears For Fears' Curt Smith

By Cory Garcia
May 24, 2022

Make no mistake: You’re going to hear the classics when Tears For Fears takes the stage at Smart Financial Center Wednesday night. You’ll get to sing about being head over heels, about everybody wanting to rule the world; you’ll get to shout it all out. But just because those songs...
At RodeoHouston, Brad Paisley is the Same Brad Paisley as Always, Thank God

By Cory Garcia
Mar 20, 2022

Brad Paisley NRG Stadium March 19, 2K22 If you had handed me a blank sheet of paper ahead of his 2022 RodeoHouston performance and asked me to guess 10 songs that would show up on his setlist, I would have scored an easy 90 percent. The only place where it...

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